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HEADTEACHER’S NEWS

Christmas 2015 We are rapidly approaching the end of what has been a long but very successful Autumn term, Christmas will soon be upon us! As usual, we have a range of events that are taking place over the coming weeks and I have detailed them in the list below.

I would particularly like to extend a warm invitation to our Winter Concert which is taking place on Wednesday 16th December. Also, please note the late start and early ending to our last day on Friday 18th December, this will be a non-uniform day for students and further information will be in next week’s festive Seagull.

Dates for your Diary:

Thursday 10th December: Year 7 – 9 School Disco 5:30pm – 7:30pm. Wednesday 16th December: Winter Concert 7:00pm Boothroyd Hall Thursday 17th December: Student Christmas Lunch.

Friday 18th December: Staff No Talent Show, Late start at 11:00am – Early finish 1:15pm approximately (non-uniform day). Monday 4th January: Return to school (normal time).

Mr Smith Headteacher

GENERAL NEWS

Star Awards On Wednesday 25th November, some of our dedicated musicians performed at the welcome reception for a Borough Award Evening here at school. Lucy Lombard sang

an assortment of songs including ‘Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again’ from Phantom of the Opera and ‘O Mio Babbino Caro’ by Puccini.

Our newly formed wind octet, Teri Keenan, Camilo Mosquera, Jamie Adekeye, Amirat Odofin, Isata Sesay, Hafusat Adeyemi, Alperen Oktay and Daniel Gill, played a selection of popular Disney songs. They were all superb representatives for the school and did both themselves and JRCS proud.

Well done and thank you all for your commitment.

Music Department Christmas Dinner On Thursday 17th December 2015 we will be celebrating the festive period by serving a traditional Christmas dinner in the school canteen at lunch. We encourage and invite all students to join us. If you would like your

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son/daughter to experience our Christmas dinner it is extremely important that you ensure there are suitable funds on their dinner account. Any students who have dinner accounts in arrears will not be served in the canteen.

Mr Smith Assistant Headteacher

Class of 2015 It was lovely to see so many of our old year 11 students on Monday’s Certificate Evening. It was really good to hear what everyone has been up to and pleasing to hear that everyone is getting on well.

If you missed the event please make sure that you pick up your certificates and yearbooks (if you pre-ordered one) at the School Reception between 8am and 4pm Monday to Friday. Please note that certificates must be collected in person.

Miss Duncan Head of Year

Lost Property Can all parents please be reminded to ask students to check the lost property basket before the end of term as any items left will be disposed of. Also any confiscated items can be collected by students from the School Office at the end of the day on Thursday 17th December.

Mrs Stone Office Manager

Attention Year 11s - GCSE Revision For all those who need help structuring and planning revision or for tips and ideas on how to revise, don’t stress! Just come to GCSE Revision Skills Club with me every Friday. Students should meet in the KS4 Pastoral Office at 3:20pm.

Look forward to seeing you!

Mrs Eades Pastoral Support Assistant (KS4) Christmas Fundraising Appeal As part of our ongoing Christmas fundraising appeal we are now looking to support our community with a food collection (replacing our shoebox appeal). Our aim is to help the many families in our local area who are increasingly forced to use the local

foodbanks. At this time when celebrations are plentiful, we as a school feel it is important to support those in real need. Please help us to help OUR community

Thank you.

Ms Boller Student Communication Manager Debate Club presents the Staff Debate On Monday 23rd November, the JRCS Debate Club presented the first ever staff debate with the following motion: This house believes the death penalty should be legalised. Ms Pearson and Mr Smith opposed the motion and Mr McInerney and Ms Lynch argued for it. The highlight was when comments and questions were asked from the floor and JRCS students made lots of very persuasive and thought-provoking statements. In the end the Opposition won – well done Ms Pearson and Mr Smith.

JRCS Debate Club meets every Monday after school on the History corridor. We are planning on entering some student teams into London-wide debates. Please come and join us for a good argument!

Ms Moody Maths Department

Deadline for food donations: Thursday 17th December

Technology, Science and Engineering TeenTech Trip

TeenTech is an amazing event JRCS was fortunate to attend on Tuesday 1st December 2015. The event was hosted by Mrs Maggie Philbin. All students who attended were amazing in all the activities. They definitely did JRCS proud.

Alperen Oktay won a 2nd place prize for completing a challenge at one of the Technology Stalls.

Well done to all the students who attended: Casey Margerison 9D, Antonia Ivanova 9B, Joanna Balla 8E, Rebecca Marku 8E, Dagmara Onozko 8D, Jennifer Dicko 9G, Alperen Oktay 9D, Jonathan Oko 8C, Temi Oluwole 9C and Alishba Saleemi 8A. Miss Banjo Head of DT

Cooking Club 2015 Over the last eight weeks the following students have started to produce a selection of foods. The students have planned and created some excellent dishes. They have used a wide range of skills, Mrs Debono and I have been very impressed with the effort and the commitment to coming to this year’s cooking club sessions; we have had 20 student’s taking part.

I would like to thank Mrs Debono for the continuous support she has given to me over the past weeks.

Well done to the students that have committed to and are taking part in this year’s Cooking Club. We re start again in 2016. Belica Cofie 7C, Snow E 7D, Jazmine Defreitas 7D, Nyomi Forbes 7D, Mia Hurley 7D, Stephanie James 7E, Samuel Serbaneci 7F, Jonjoe Mould 7G, Alyssa West 7I, Daniel Barcroft 8B, Jonathan Oko 8C, Havilah Ekwes 8C, James David 8D, Lisa-Marie Lawrence 8G, Rachael Akhablam 8G, Ryley Rogers 8H, Shanise Garner 8H, Greta Petrokaite 8H, Shannon West 8H and Harry Ely 9A,

Mr Hargreaves Food and Catering Department Partnership with the London Area Sea Cadets As many of you will know we are currently involved in a partnership project with the London Area Sea Cadets, who have provided free watersports training for our students at the Royal Docks and are currently delivering a first aid course in school, linked to our D of E in Year 9 which will conclude with a residential project next term.

The Sea Cadets have approached us about taking this partnership further and establishing a Sea Cadet Unit or Sea Cadet Partnership Unit here at Jo Richardson. The Sea Cadets state that ‘Our main aim is to inspire young people, to boost their confidence to help give them the best head start in life with a range of skills that will benefit them regardless of the career path they choose’. For any new cadet partnership or unit, the school will need to recruit sufficient adult volunteers to run it. These units will require at least two volunteers, one male and one female. Volunteers wear uniforms (provided free by the MOD), but do not need any form of military experience – just enthusiasm and a willingness to learn new skills. As well as being a very rewarding experience, volunteering with a cadet unit can lead to fully-accredited qualifications in a wide range of activities and disciplines. We are therefore seeking volunteers from the school community to express an interest in taking this project forward. If there are any parents or friends of the school who are interested in this volunteering opportunity, please e-mail me directly lmontague@jorichardson.org.uk. Miss Montague OSHL Coordinator Year 7 and 8 Trewern Trip 2016 – confirmation of dates The dates for this trip have now been changed to the week earlier. The trip will now take place on Sunday 6th March – Friday 11th March (rather than 13th – 18th March). All those involved have been alerted to the proposed changes, this is just to confirm that the decision has been confirmed to move the dates to a week earlier. Miss Montague Year 7/8 Trewern Trip Leader Year 8 Netball Success Following a heavy defeat last week to the Eastbury A team, the Year 8 netball girls came back fighting to secure a victory over Sydney Russell. The girls committed themselves to an extra training practice and it paid off as we scored 15 goals to Sydney

Russell’s 3. There were some excellent individual performances from Silvia Martin 8E and Ire Ajala 8F and on the whole the girls defended well throughout the game to ensure we had the most possession. The winning streak continued this week with another victory this time over Riverside. The girls played some really well organised and fluid netball which comes as a result of playing and training together regularly. The result was 12-0 to Jo Richardson and the player of the match was Esther Harvest who scored most of the goals. We have one more fixture against Barking Abbey before Christmas so hopefully we can continue this run of form.

Well done ladies!

Miss Boulton PE Department Thank you Laveda! Laveda Ogbebor 8D has kindly donated her Jack Petchey reward money to the PE Department. She has a keen interest in athletics and has represented the school in Cross Country and Athletics during the last two years at JRCS. She decided to spend the money on new athletics vests for the team and proudly modelled her design with her friends Elizabeth Ogunyanwo and Mei-la Daley.

Miss Boulton Head of PE KS3 Volleyball Results JRCS Key Stage 3 Volleyball team competed against Sydney Russell in the Barking and Dagenham Borough final. The JRCS

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Volleyball team consisted of a mixed team from Year 7 and Year 8 whilst Sydney Russell had a squad made up of male students. In what was a tense and very close game over three matches, Sydney Russell came out the eventual winners by 1 – 2, winning the deciding game.

Scorecard G1: JRCS 25 – 18 Sydney Russell G2: JRCS 26 – 28 Sydney Russell G3: JRCS 15 – 25 Sydney Russell

The JRCS Volleyball team: Dimeji Olayinka 7J, JonJoe Mould 7G, Silvai Martin-Omergie 8E, Joana Balla 8E Adam Lahmami 8E and Esther Harvest 8E.

The Year 8 girls from JRCS plus the rest of the Key Stage 3 girls squad will represent Barking and Dagenham at the London Youth Games

Mr Newport PE Department Year 8/9 Basketball Tournament Last week the Year 8/9 boys Basketball team competed in the Barking and Dagenham Borough Tournament at Sydney Russell School. The boys exceeded expectations and played extremely well to finish in 3rd place overall and received bronze medals. We beat Riverside 15-2, Sydney Russell 8-6 and were eventually beaten by Dagenham Park 11-6. Well done boys and keep up the hard work!

Kany Kiakia 10D, Guerchon Swarhay 9F, Plamedi Mateus 8F, Ahmed Ismaila 8F, Jovan Nevandovic 9A, Abiola Shakeye 9C, Tyler Hope 8F, Dominik Svacina 8F, Edon Halimi 8E, Connor Richmond 8F, Sean Mwangi 9H, Alperen Oktay 9D, Dimitrios Lavani 9C and Clive Armstrong 9D.

Mr Robson PE Department Year 7 Boys Football On Monday the Year 7 boys football team played a Borough league game against Barking Abbey. On a very cold, wet and windy evening the boys played well against a very good Barking Abbey team but unfortunately ended up losing the game 3-1.

Well done to everyone who played and in particular Jack Curtis for scoring our equaliser. Logan McKenzie 7J, Bayley Maffia 7H, Anthony Thomas 7C, Elliot Owen 7B, Ernest Peka 7C, Michael Tittley 7A, Taylor Skinner 7A, Jack Curtis 7F, Samuel Osikorobia 7E, Jare Oniwonlu 7B, Nigel Moyo 7H and Samuel Boadi 7C.

Don’t forget Year 7 football training is on a Tuesday after school.

Mr Howard PE Department

OFFICE ASSISTANTS The Office Assistants for the week beginning Monday 30th November: Monday Lewis Halahan 8C Tuesday Kevin Laryea 8C Wednesday Andreia Loios 8C Thursday Molly McCarthy 8C Friday Katie- Louise Olesby 8C

Year 11 Mock Exams

Below is a copy of Year 11 exam timetable. These are internal exams and students will be required to attend normal lessons. Please make sure students have a good breakfast and they have the correct equipment with them for each exam, including a calculator (if needed) and a black pen. If they wish to, they may bring water, but this needs to be in a clear plastic bottle with the label removed. Please remind your child that under no circumstances should mobile phones be taken into exam rooms. If your child is unable to attend any of their exams, please call the attendance line as usual and we will require a letter from your doctor.

Day/Date Paper Length Time

Monday 7th December Maths - Calculator 1 hour & 45 minutes 8.45am

Monday 7th December Geography Paper 2 1 hour & 30 minutes 11.15am

Monday 7th December Triple Science C2 1 hour 2.00pm

Tuesday 8th December French Listening French Reading

45 minutes 50 minutes

8.45am

Tuesday 8th December Spanish Listening Spanish Reading

45 minutes 50 minutes

11.15am

Tuesday 8th December Engineering 1 hour 11.15am

Tuesday 8th December Triple Science P2 1 hour 2.00pm

Wednesday 9th December RE Paper 2

PE 1 hour & 10 minutes 1 hour & 30 minutes

8.45am

Wednesday 9th December Music (Listening) 1 hour & 20 minutes 11.15am

Wednesday 9th December ICT & Computer Science 1 hour 2.00pm

Thursday 10th and Friday 11th December Art - 2 Days in Art Corridor

Monday 14th December DT - All Day in DT Corridor

Sixth Form

Student Spotlight

This week’s featured student

Mohammed Rashid 11G

Mohammed is currently predicted to

achieve an APS of 46.0 in the Summer 2016

GCSE exams. Having already completed

his Sixth Form application, he intends on

studying the following A-levels:

Block A - Biology

Block B - Maths

Block C - IFS

Block D - Chemistry

Mohammed is a very committed, enthusiastic student, who was one of the first ten students who successfully managed to complete their application for the Southern Consortium Sixth Form. Mohammed thought that “all the relevant information was easy to find on the southern consortium website (www.southernconsortium.org.uk), the form was very straight forward and easy to complete, it only took 15 minutes”.

With a predicted APS (Average Point Score) of 46.0, Mohammed meets the criteria to study a combination of A-Levels (as shown above) if he chooses. He believes that having the target of studying at Jo Richardson Sixth Form next year, “has helped me to see the importance of the current Year 11 mock examination weeks and focus my revision for them. This will hopefully increase my predicted grades and APS”. Applications are now open, if you have any further questions, or need help applying please ask a member of the Sixth Form team. We hope to see many more Key Stage 4 students make the transition to the Jo Richardson Sixth Form in the coming years.

Mohammed’s thoughts

on the application

process;

“It was very straight

forward and only took 15

minutes. I emailed it to

the address and received

an automated response”

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OPENING TIMES

Tuesdays: 1pm – 5pm Wednesdays: 1pm – 5pm Thursdays 1pm – 8pm*

*LATE NIGHT OPENING ON THURSDAYS

FESTIVE PERIOD

The uniform shop will close at 8pm

on Thursday 17th December and re-open at 1pm

on Tuesday 5th January

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DANCE LIFE - STREET DANCE CLASSES “Eat Sleep Breathe Dance”

Here at Dance Life we are trained professionals who will help educate students with

passion, enthusiasm and enjoyment whilst respecting individuality and differing abilities.

We aim to help develop self-confidence and co-ordination all in a safe, creative dance

studio. We get to know all our students individually so we can help them reach their full

potential all while having fun!

Throughout the year we perform in Dance Shows and Events including Charity Events.

This will help students build confidence and performing skills. The opportunity to join our

competition team “DANCE LIFE SQUAD” may become available to all hard working

students.

All teachers hold a clear DBS check and classes are covered by public liability insurance.

DANCE LIFE CLASSES AT CASTLE GREEN, DAGENHAM.

INFANTS (3-5 years) Wednesdays 6 pm -7 pm - £5 a lesson

JUNIORS (6-10 years) Wednesdays 7 pm-8 pm - £5 a lesson

SENIORS (11 years +)

ALL CLASSES ARE HELD IN DANCE STUDIO 2 AT CASTLE GREEN (Castle Green, Gale St, Dagenham, Greater London RM9 4UN)

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